Improvement in ticket-clasps



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE. l

HERMANN LCKE AND PHILIPP BRMMER, OF WORCESTER, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TICKET-CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,247, dated September 22, 1874 5 application iiled August 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERMANN LCKE and PHILIPP BRMMER, ot' Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket-Clasps, of which the t'ollowing is a specification:

The invention relates to the construction of the device, whereby it is adapted for clamping or holding tickets, and various other articles, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure lis a front view, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sec.- tion of Fig. l, taken on the line :1: x.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This holder is constructed from a single piece of metal, but the thread -cutter is made separate and attached by solder or other means to the main plate, from whichthe various parts of the holder are formed.

A is the main plate. B is the ticket-holder or clamp, formed by bending and doubling over an extension of the main plate A. (l is the pin by means of which the entire article is attached to the coat orpvest of the user. D is the hook, which secures the pin to the clothing. E is a spring', which curves over main plate, upon which baggage-checks and similar articles may be safely conined. J is the pencil-holder, it being a lateral extension of the plate A, bent in a circle to form an eye and hold the pencil by friction. K is the thread-cutter, formed of a `piece of metal, L, separate from the plate A, but attached thereto by means of solder, or in any permanent manner, having a curved slot, fm, therein. In the slot m is ixed a steel blade, N. O is an opening which terminates in a point.

The thread to be cut is forced down into the acute angle of the opening, and is severed by its contact with the edge of the blade N.

This entire article, with the exception of the thread-cutter, is formed or cut (by means of suitably-contrhf'ed dies) from a single piece of sheet metal.

rlhe holder may be made without the cutter, but we prefer to combine them, as it makes the article more complete and desirable to the public.

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters PatentrIhe slotted plates A and B, the latter having point H and curved locking-spring E, and the former the terminal hook I, and provided with catch F, said parts forming a clamp, as shown and described.

HERMANN LUCKE. PHILIIP BRUMMER. Witnesses:

E. B. BERRY, J. L. SWEET. 

